A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your “thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating and cooling.
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
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A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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